MINNEAPOLIS( AFP)-A former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to 57 months in prison on Thursday( Oct 21) for the fatal shooting of an Australian woman who had called 911 to report a crime. Mohamed Noor, 36, was convicted in 2019 of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond in a case that shocked this Minnesota city and sparked outrage in the victim’s home country. Noor was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison on the murder ch

The justices said the charge can only apply when a defendant shows a “ generalized indifference to human life, ” not when the conduct is directed at a particular person, as it was with Damond.... Experts say the ruling means the third-degree murder conviction earlier this year against former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s 2020 death likely also will be tossed out.... But that would have little impact because Chauvin was also convicted of a more serious second-degree